Saudi Arabic government services call-center speech data
Calls to government service centres the way Saudi customers make them: appointments, permits, application status, fees and documents, in Najdi, Hejazi, Southern, Eastern and Northern Saudi Arabic. Every call is transcribed word for word, tagged with what the caller wants, and checked by several native Saudi reviewers.
Specification
- Dialect
- Najdi, Hejazi, Southern, Eastern and Northern Saudi Arabic, with the English words customers mix in
- Calls
- Customer and agent, two speakers per call: appointments, permits, application status, fees and documents
- Audio
- 8 kHz telephone or 16 kHz wideband, 16-bit WAV, mono or one channel per speaker
- Speakers
- Native Saudi speakers, balanced across gender and age groups
- Annotation
- Verbatim transcript, timestamps, speaker turns and gender; intents such as book appointment, application status, renew permit, pay fee
- Quality check
- Every transcript is cross-checked by several native Saudi reviewers
Example of the data
- Agent00:01
هلا والله، معك عبدالله من خدمة العملاء، وش أقدر أخدمك؟
Hello, this is Abdullah from customer service. How can I help you?
- Customer00:04
هلا، عندي مشكلة في المعاملة، من أمس أحاول وما ضبطت معي.
Hi, I have a problem with my application. I’ve been trying since yesterday and it won’t work.
- Agent00:09
أبشر، عطني رقم الهوية لو سمحت.
Of course, give me your ID number, please.
- Customer00:12
تمام، بس أبي أعرف ليش صار كذا؟
Sure, but I want to know why this happened.
What it is used for
Speech recognition for Saudi calls
Train and evaluate ASR that hears Saudi Arabic, not only Modern Standard Arabic.
Government contact centres
Answer citizens and residents in their dialect, at any hour.
Service-quality monitoring
Measure what people call about and how well each call ends.
Agent quality monitoring
Score calls automatically against your service standards.
Questions
Which varieties of the dialect are included?
Najdi, Hejazi, Southern, Eastern and Northern Saudi Arabic. Tell us the regions and the mix your product needs.
Which government services intents are labelled?
Intents such as book appointment, application status, renew permit, pay fee, plus sentiment and named entities on request, or your own label set.
Can I hear samples first?
Yes. Request samples with the form on this page and we will send them with the full specification.
Can it be used in a commercial product?
Yes. The data is prepared for training and evaluating commercial AI systems, under a licence agreed with you.
Tell us what your model needs.
Request samples and the full specification. We reply within a couple of business days.
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